If read you correctly, and I'm sure I did, you're saying we should start a collective to put several sheep on each concourse. I like this idea A LOT.
Game is Slower than My Grandfather Taking out the Garbage…and he is dead.
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It would give the fans something to do during the tv timeouts. And it would help a lot in trying to secure a home and home series with West Virginia.
I appreciated the clock on the field. It told me exactly how long I could kick back in my seat, tip my cap down and take a quick snooze.
The TV timeout person would walk out on the field at about the 20 yard line on the visitors side with a big digital countdown timer.
It felt like the guy with his TV timeout countdown clock set to 2:20 came out after every single change in possession, every injury. But you're right, this game somehow "only" took just over 3 hours.
We'll see how it goes rest of the season, but feels like college football is going in the wrong direction here
On the south side of the stadium.
Although the clock is new, the same guy has been doing this for as long as I can remember. My dad hates him with a passion 😂
I agree college football games take waaaaay too long to complete.
Last November, I was listening to the Rutgers-Maryland game on the radio while waiting to pick up kids at a practice or birthday party. This game was a 3:30pm kick off. Sometime after 7pm, with the game out of reach for Rutgers, Greg binges on time outs. In 55 seconds of clock time, Greg called 3 unnecessary time outs. Those 55 seconds lasted about 20 to 30 minutes in real life time. Finally, at 7:33pm - more than 4 hours after scheduled kick off and with weather in the 20s - the fans still in the stadium were put out of their misery. To be sure, I'm not blaming Greg here. Football would be better without time outs and quicker games.
I posted about the time out bender on TKR. One poster called me, "asinine," stating Greg was just trying to get a defensive stop. A smarter poster answered, "smart people left at 28-3." That was more than 3 hours before the final whistle.
Related story. When I was a Rutgers student a long time ago, a friend from England visited and I brought him to a Rutgers football game. After the game, and after a beer or ten, we were in my dorm room listening to Knightline. Friend calls in and asks why a 60 minute game takes 3 hours. The Knightline guys, not used to international callers to their program, could not provide a good answer.
This problem is getting worse. It is the #1 reason I stopped attending more than a handful of big time sporting events per year.
Last November, I was listening to the Rutgers-Maryland game on the radio while waiting to pick up kids at a practice or birthday party. This game was a 3:30pm kick off. Sometime after 7pm, with the game out of reach for Rutgers, Greg binges on time outs. In 55 seconds of clock time, Greg called 3 unnecessary time outs. Those 55 seconds lasted about 20 to 30 minutes in real life time. Finally, at 7:33pm - more than 4 hours after scheduled kick off and with weather in the 20s - the fans still in the stadium were put out of their misery. To be sure, I'm not blaming Greg here. Football would be better without time outs and quicker games.
I posted about the time out bender on TKR. One poster called me, "asinine," stating Greg was just trying to get a defensive stop. A smarter poster answered, "smart people left at 28-3." That was more than 3 hours before the final whistle.
Related story. When I was a Rutgers student a long time ago, a friend from England visited and I brought him to a Rutgers football game. After the game, and after a beer or ten, we were in my dorm room listening to Knightline. Friend calls in and asks why a 60 minute game takes 3 hours. The Knightline guys, not used to international callers to their program, could not provide a good answer.
This problem is getting worse. It is the #1 reason I stopped attending more than a handful of big time sporting events per year.
Me too. Arguably the most fun fan interaction of the football season.
I gave my tickets to my son, daughter, 16 year old grandson. and his 16 old friend, gave them spending money. I gave them a call after half time see how it was going. They were as shocked as I to find out they did not take cash for the food.
Is this common knowledge?
Is this common knowledge?
There are too many timeouts allowed per team, but we've all seen the stories about coaches being forced to call them. It's all part of the routine to hit the standard number of commercial breaks in the game...
Actually there was a petting zoo in the boardwalk area. Just gotta move it a few hundred feet south and make sure the sheep aren't carrying any bags so they can get through security faster.
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